What Does I Chronicles 3:20 Mean?

Zerubbabel's additional sons reinforce the same lesson by sheer accumulation. The restored Davidic house is not a fragile point hanging by a thread. It still possesses generational range. Chronicles gives these names so the reader can feel the solidity of post exilic continuance. The family line was no illusion produced by nostalgia. It remained present in living descendants after the first great work of return.

Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushabhesed show that after catastrophe the Lord is able to grant ordinary increase again. That increase may seem quiet when compared with the old grandeur of palace and throne, yet it is no less an act of covenant faithfulness. God restores by giving future bearing continuity to a house that looked politically finished. His promise does not depend on spectacle to remain active.

Zechariah 4:6 to 10 and John 10:10 let us consider this renewed growth under the name of Christ. The small beginnings of restored Davidic life look toward the One in whom life is given in fullness and permanence. What multiplies here after disaster is being kept for Him.